The Redhunter

As I heard Hume point out on the Laura Ingraham show earlier this week, suppose he had suggested that Woods adopt practices of Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, or transcendental meditation? Do you think the left would have reacted in the same way? Of course not.

Brit Hume is not a public official, so what's the big deal? If it was a mayor speaking while chairing the local town council meeting, ok, I get it. But this was not that.

Further, he was not acting as a news anchor, and he didn't say it in the middle of a news broadcast. He retired from that role a few years ago. He was there are a commentator.

Basically, a Christian went on TV and said that Christianity is the best religion. Muslims think theirs is the best religion, and so on. That Hume said this on a news show rather than a religious channel makes no difference to me.

Here is the issue, there are militant anti-Christians who cannot stand to even hear anything that challenges their beliefs. They've gone beyond preventing government from promoting a particular religion to demanding that it be totally absent from the public sphere.

Sister Toldjah says it best (and I owe much else in this post to her as well):

There are those who don't believe in Jesus but who also don't have any issues with a public discussion about Christianity because they understand that many of the tenets of the tradition Christian faith are parallel in nature to what used to be standard, widely held general beliefs about what the basics of right and wrong, good and bad - regardless of faith. Not only that, but they recognize that there is nothing wrong in believing in a calling bigger than ourselves. Those people I can respect. The people I have very little respect for are

1) non-believers who scream in outrage at the first criticism of Islam but who are the first ones in line to throw mud at Christians - and who are the first ones to falsely claim that Christians can be "just as bad - or worse" than the "tiny minority" of extremist Islamists who live in the world),

2) so-called "believers" who believe that the discussion of faith and religion should be limited to the church and the privacy of your home (did someone tell Jesus this?), and

3) "believers" who twist the word of God into something that it is not in order to justify their political beliefs ("Jesus was a liberal!").

As usual, any time anyone utters the word "Christian" and "faith" in the same sentence - especially when it's involved in a discussion where it's being compared in what some would see in a negative way to another belief system, the left treats it as though someone has kicked a kitten, pushed an elderly lady in front of a transit bus, and/or burned the Constitution. It's "outrageous," it's "worthy of contempt," it has "no place in the public debate," it's "demeaning to other faiths," etc etc. Yet, they have no problems themselves routinely condemning and smearing the Christian faith. In fact, if the left had their way, it wouldn't just be government officials who were Christians who had to be politically correct when referring to different religions; commentators who favored Christianity over other religions would have to, too.

Ditto that, Sister.

In the end, though, we can't say we weren't warned:

2 Timothy 3:12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted

Luke 21:12
But before all this, they will lay hands on you and persecute you. They will deliver you to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name.

John 15:20
Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.

2 Timothy 3:12
In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

Hebrews 10:32-33
Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering. 33Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.

...and many more.